DUNCAN, Okla. – Fanni “Kitty” Marie Russell, 86, died Thursday, June 17, 2010, at Duncan Regional Hospital in Duncan, Okla., after a short battle with cancer.

She was born Aug. 13, 1923, to Charlie Washington Washington and Mary Ellen Cox-Beavers in the Hope community.

She married Walter Earnest Russell Aug. 13, 1943. He survives.

She attended high school at Marlow and later graduated from cosmetology school in Farmington, N.M., and worked as a beautician for several years. She left the workforce when Earnest surrendered to preach in 1964. She joined him in service by teaching Sunday school and singing with the choir.

She enjoyed working in her yard, spending time with her family, and playing with her great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her father and mother-in-law, Berniece and Bessie Russell, six brothers, Ebb Beavers, Jess Beavers, Walter Beavers, Edgar Beavers, TD Beavers and JW Beavers, and five sisters, Tinsy Fleetwood, Bessie Payne, Freda Rowe, Lily Preston and Faye Busby.

o Services were at 2 p.m. today at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Marlow.

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